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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1887
Page
6
Detailed advice from a Broadway gun shop owner on how a novice can become an expert wing shot. Emphasizes practicing with an unloaded gun, aiming at door knobs and moving targets, then progressing to cans and glass balls, and finally to game in the field with careful control of nerves and technique.
Oswald Ottendorfer owner of The New York Staats Zeitung awards 173 loyal employees a 10 percent dividend on yearly earnings. Lord Lorne composes a lengthy political essay in Malta amid celebratory events. Louise indulges in festivities while Sheridan, the general, escorts his wife shopping and carries her hand bag.
An old advertisement touts Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a cure for female weakness, debility, and nervous exhaustion promising vigor, beauty, and robust health. It claims benefits for women and children, with testimonials from Clarkson and Daggett Mills, Pa. Sold by A.W. Morck & Co.
Adam Badeau recounts Stewart offered as secretary of the treasury before being found ineligible due to a forgotten import conflict law. He proposed a four year trusteeship for profits to public or charity use, but another secretary was chosen. After denial of favors and altered appointments, Stewart faded from influence, returning to private life and his dry goods business.
The account describes a visitor’s impression of China with Dore like gloom of lost souls and a strong smoky pungent odor from opium, tobacco, and open fires. It notes native dress, language, copper skin, and Chinese dogs reacting to a foreign scent, as cited from George II Titch in Cosmopolitan.
A group of young Chicago businessmen plans to open American runchery style lunch counters in London. With 2500 dollars capital they aim to serve clean cheap fast meals like mince pie cider pumpkin pie and pork and beans. They cite Chicago as the pioneer in this lunchery model and hope Londoners will embrace Yankee dishes.
A vivid account from a traveler in Nice during a quake, detailing the initial shock, the fear and danger, and the humorous observations amid collapse and cries. He recalls women’s cries for help, the rocking bed, and public reactions, noting the contrast between danger and amusement even as the tremor lasts about a minute.
A Jackson street man recalls a counterfeit ten cent piece linked to a Fredericksburg incident. A New York volunteer fired a whisky bottle struck by a minie ball, shattering his jaw and seven teeth, with lead melted into four dimes. One dime, including the lead, ends up with the storyteller. The tale names a cross-eyed South Carolina marksman as the shooter.
Matthew Lyons, a naturalized Irishman and former Vermont congressman, was fined $1,000 and imprisoned four months for publishing a letter that calmed to bring President John Adams into contempt. A Massachusetts judge joked about using a goose as a coin emblem, provoking Lyons to challenge the judge to a duel, which led to Lyons withdrawing rather than fight.
A Globe-Democrat clipping states raw onions soothe nervous prostration and boost worn-out systems. It claims onions absorb germs, protect households during epidemics, and that onion patches near homes deter pestilence. A Black Hills farmer reportedly earned 1300 dollars from onions on about an acre and a quarter, selling 459 sacks.
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